Business Processes Automation in a Production Facility Through the Use of Collaborative Robots

摘要

Scaling up and automating business processes makes one of the greatest contributions to the development of the business. The growth of sales of the goods or services may lead to the sophistication of the enterprise's business processes, increased number of staff, and the necessity to create new departments and divisions. Unfortunately, increased number of employees does not always correlate with the increase in the revenue of the enterprise. Instead, forced business process automation is regarded to be more effective. The integration of robotics solutions is one of the main ways to automate the production. This kind of modernization is one of the key stages to ensure further development within the Fourth Industrial revolution. The main result of the business processes automation and the whole Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) will be a fully “unmanned” production facility, where robotic solutions have entirely replaced the employees at their workspaces. In this way, robots will be able to perform those kinds of work that are dangerous for the humans. The robots-based production processes can be continuous bringing a positive impact on the efficiency and the productivity of the enterprise. This paper describes the automation of the business process on production facilities with the use of collaborative robotics.